Patti Smith Quotes

I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed.

Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

When my hair was shorter, I used to get it done every couple of days... but I got tired of that.

All men are partially buried in the grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the head above ground. Better are the physically dead, for they more lively rot. Even virtue is no longer such if it be stagnant. A man's life should be constantly as fresh as this river. It should be the same channel, but a new water every instant.

I go from day to day and game to game.

If I wanted to do the same thing every day, I would have gone into a different profession.

I'm not good at doing the same thing over and over again.

I've always loved playing with hair. I used to want dreads like Lauryn Hill, but my mom wouldn't let me.

I like the idea that we settle into what looks best on us. Then it becomes a game of finding the perfect version of those things.

You don't want to look the same every day of your life. It's boring as hell.

I kind of just dress the same way no matter where I am.

If you do the same thing all the time, it's not very challenging.

I know hotel life sounds good but, believe me, it grows old when you have eaten the menu ten times over and you know you've stayed too long when you're on first-name terms with the staff.

Doing the same old thing every day, week in and week out, it gets boring. I'm all about new challenges, new opponents.

While I try and give as much energy, enthusiasm and detail to any work I do, if I keep coming back to it, to the same people year after year, there's an attachment. But you don't want anything to become comfortable.

I think anyone that's in the same building or the same place for a really long period of time, some parts of it become routine.

Life's boring enough without always having the same hair.

It is a boring life if you stick to all the rules.

There's always so much stuff to do. I work best when my diary just says 'MNEK, MNEK, MNEK.'

Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.

I'm afraid of habit patterns...It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.

Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.